“Why Did We Destroy Europe?” It’s an arresting title, chosen by Michael Polanyi for a 1970 essay that looks back on the conflagrations that consumed Europe between 1914 and 1945. (The essay can be found in Society, Economics & Philosophy, a posthumous volume of selected papers by . . . . Continue Reading »
Is there such a thing as good therapy? Not for kids, argues Abigail Shrier. Sure, “play therapy” for the littlest tykes probably does no more harm (and no more good) than a very expensive babysitter. But when the talk therapy developed for adults is administered to children and . . . . Continue Reading »
If we justly reform the health care laws and policies governing American health care, we will resurrect a culture of life in America. Continue Reading »
Richard Gallagher joins the podcast to discuss his book Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal. Continue Reading »
When doctors imagine themselves deities who de facto know “what’s best” in difficult neo-natal cases, then the ethics of the ancient Hippocratic Oath seem to crumble. Continue Reading »
It is a haze of fog and low cloud at dawn and the kookaburras are wild with ecstasy. The soft low click of the neighbors’ gate breaks in among the birdsong: opening, closing, opening. They are leaving early for the long weekend of midsummer. In the room next to mine, a man is retching, heaving, . . . . Continue Reading »
The normalization of chemical substances may seem like a phenomenon peculiar to our postmodern moment, but a movie made nearly seventy years ago sounded the alarm before many of us were even born. Continue Reading »
Anna DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more. Continue Reading »
Conform or be drugged. We used to make dystopian movies about it; now we make our children live it. Continue Reading »
Are we going to treat the bodies of humans with the basic dignity they were denied in life, or are we going to treat them like trash? We must confront, rather than avoid, the grim realities of the abortion industry in its totality. Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
